HeyJaredThe Ivy Exile
Redemption of a recovering flack. Ex-Brown/PBS/Columbia. Somewhere between Manhattan and America.
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken (opens the original)
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Words I’m grateful to only have to type once: my mother died last week. Part of me remains in disbelief; less than two years ago my Mom was still a dynamo with chutzpah to spare and a mind like a steel trap. Like Dolly Parton, she was so vital that it never really occurred to me that she might not be kicking around well into her 80s. But cancer is a bitch, and the treatments for cancer almost as bad, and she succumbed about six weeks after her 80th birthday. Her spirit will never die: she was th
Scar Tissue (opens the original)
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A topic I seldom mention: that much of my otherwise comfortable upbringing was marred by domestic violence on a near-daily basis. I was blessed with two loving parents who shared joint custody, and cursed by a sadistic bully of a brother already showing early signs of the mental illness that would eventually consume him.He was four years older and much bigger and stronger than me, so I had little means of defending myself. Sometimes it was suddenly pummeling me with brutal punches. Sometimes it
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